Regulation and Deregulation of Industry

News about Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Nov. 20, 2014

Editorial supports three new bills that would deter corporations from covering up safety defects and punish those individuals and companies that do so; says bills, engendered by the General Motors safety scandal, should be placed high on agenda of new Congress MORE

Nov. 6, 2014

Experts on Wall Street and political veterans say actual legislative agenda of new Republican majorities in both houses of Congress will be limited, despite plenty of public talk of more aggressive action on issues like corporate taxation and financial regulation. MORE

Oct. 15, 2014

Supreme Court justices express concern and frustration during arguments over case involving North Carolina dental board's efforts to drive unlicensed teeth-whitening services out of business; note that case has raised larger questions about regulation of professions. MORE

Oct. 7, 2014

Recent regulations hit hardest on the very businesses, like trading, where Goldman Sachs makes the most money. MORE

Sep. 25, 2014

New chemicals are turning up everywhere in the environment, and the health risks are mostly unknown. MORE

Sep. 15, 2014

The bid by the second-largest beer company in the world fueled speculation of deals on the horizon, but closing them may not be so easy. MORE

May. 1, 2014

Nicholas Kristof Op-Ed column argues deaths stemming from faulty General Motors ignition switches are a strong reminder of why government regulations are necessary; criticizes tired conservative slogan that regulations kill jobs, noting that their essential purpose is to save lives. MORE

Apr. 23, 2014

Op-Ed article by New York State Atty Gen Eric T Schneiderman criticizes claim by some companies that selling their goods and services online somehow exempts them from regulation; highlights Airbnb, housing rental company that allows users to turn their homes into hotel rooms, as an example; contends it is in best interest of consumers for such companies to cooperate with regulators. MORE

Apr. 22, 2014

Airbnb, housing rental company with estimated worth of $10 billion, goes to court to fight effort by New York State regulators to collect names of Airbnb hosts in New York City who are breaking the law by renting out multiple properties for short periods; regulators and elected officials are increasingly questioning tactics of Internet start-ups like Uber, Airbnb and Lyft, especially the notion that laws do not apply to them, MORE

Apr. 17, 2014

Morgan Stanley’s solid first quarter provides evidence that it has adapted better to a stricter regulatory environment than rivals like Goldman Sachs, which reported an earnings decline. MORE

Mar. 30, 2014

Phyllis Korkki Applied Sciences column investigates algorithm developed by MIT Prof Andrei Kirilenko and colleagues that is meant to help determine whether a government agency has adjusted a proposal in response to public comments. MORE

Mar. 27, 2014

Editorial warns Kentucky Sen Mitch McConnell's resolution to block Environmental Protection Agency proposal to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions from coal plants could be used to derail federal rule-making on number of issues; holds McConnell's action, even if it fails, dangerously escalates antiregulatory fervor; urges Democrats to shut down McConnell's effort. MORE

Dec. 8, 2013

Sendhil Mullainathan Economic View column contends competitive markets, like the one for cable service, retain annoying snags because people do not always think before buying; questions if minimum level of regulation is needed to ensure that markets compete by increasing value to consumers and not by creating snags. MORE

Dec. 4, 2013

Editorial criticizes actions of Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Mary Jo White, who it charges with failing to put investors' interests first; singles out agency's removal from its regulatory agenda of a plan to consider a rule requiring public companies to disclose their political spending. MORE

Jul. 16, 2013

Letters from Sen Rob Portman and Nancy A Nord, commissioner of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, respond to July 6 editorial criticizing bill that would limit independence of regulatory agencies. MORE

Jul. 11, 2013

Editorial contends two new rules adopted by Securities and Exchange Commission all but invite hucksters, rip-off artists and other bad actors to prey on individual investors; warns rules are another disturbing sign the SEC, under leadership of new chairwoman Mary Jo White, will pursue deregulation at the expense of investor protection. MORE

Jul. 6, 2013

Editorial warns of new Senate bill that would effectively end independence of many regulatory agencies; says it will favor reckless banks and careless corporations at the cost of consumer health and basic fairness; argues independence from executive pressure is essential if agencies are to maintain meaningful oversight. MORE

Jul. 1, 2013

Editorial criticizes Obama administration for its resistance to finalizing new regulations through the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs; stresses notable rules that have been held up, particularly on issues of food safety, labor protections and energy and environmental standards. MORE

Jun. 2, 2013

Sunday Dialogue on government's proper role in the marketplace and whether country requires more regulation on business or less. MORE

May. 10, 2013

Devastating fertilizer plant blast in West, Tex, in April did little to shake local skepticism of government regulations, and recent efforts to push for more oversight have faced strong resistance; Texas has always prided itself on its free-market posture and its antipathy toward regulation, but it also had the nation's highest number of workplace fatalities for much of the past decade. MORE

Apr. 16, 2013

An S.E.C. spokesman, John Nester, said “the staff expects to have something for the commission’s consideration in the near future.” MORE

Apr. 10, 2013

Efforts to rein in the consulting industry may be stymied by the regulators’ cozy ties to the consultants and their limited legal authority to penalize them. MORE

Mar. 12, 2013

Mexican leaders present sweeping overhaul of laws regulating telecommunications, most serious effort yet to rein in country's dominant telephone, television and Internet companies; plan would give regulators broad new powers over giants like America Movil, owned by Carlos Slim Helu, and Televisa. MORE

Mar. 3, 2013

It’s called a jobs act, but it’s really a con job for small investors. MORE

Jan. 31, 2013

Op-Ed article by marine conservation biologist Callum Roberts calls on federal government to hold firm and keep thousands of square miles of ocean off New England closed to commercial fishing; contends depleted stocks of cod and other species are still recovering from over-exploitation and New Englanders must resist temptation to squander resources in a splurge that would impoverish seas and industry once again. MORE

Jan. 24, 2013

Prof Susan Crawford Op-Ed article advocates increased government regulation of communications industry to prevent dominance of market by a few powerful companies with resulting suppression of competition and innovation; asserts that for America to progress, wired and wireless communications must be reasonably priced, globally competitive and ubiquitous. MORE

Jan. 2, 2013

Silicon Valley companies are expected to increase lobbying efforts in the nation’s capital and overseas as governments worldwide revisit legislation on issues like consumer privacy and online security. MORE

Oct. 7, 2012

Mitt Romney’s pledge to overhaul environmental rules would require his administration to make significant revisions to landmark laws such as the Clean Air Act, and overcome political opposition to oil drilling among other challenges. MORE

Sep. 21, 2012

Floyd Norris High & Low Finance column contends the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia may yet doom many or most of the Dodd-Frank financial reforms, with the Securities and Exchange Commission suffering a series of defeats there; points out with three vacancies, it might help if there were new judges who would be willing to allow the SEC to do its job, something that Republican senators have been able to prevent during the Obama presidency. MORE

Aug. 12, 2012

Editorial questions Obama's administration's commitment to wide-ranging reforms that are needed to make government work better and more effectively. MORE

Aug. 6, 2012

Research by a group of accounting professors shows that the revolving door, symbolic portal that executives and lawyers pass through on their way to government posts and back again to the private sector, actually toughens enforcement results at the Securities and Exchange Commission; finding is the opposite of what government critics have maintained MORE

Aug. 5, 2012

Gretchen Morgenson Fair Game column contends that the Securities and Exchange Commission could be more active in guarding state and local agencies against the financial firms that underwrite their municipal bonds; holds that calls for greater oversight are welcome, particularly given how Wall Street has hornswoggled some muni issuers over the years, adding that muni investors and issuers have been burdened by opacity for too long. MORE

Aug. 4, 2012

Cass R Sunstein, man who wielded enormous power as administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, announces that he will leave post to return to Harvard Law School; departs his role with a record that has left many business interests disappointed and environmental, health and consumer advocates even more unhappy. MORE

Jun. 6, 2012

Republican-controlled House Appropriations Committee is producing spending bills that slash or severely cutting spending, particularly for many of the Obama administration's efforts to implement regulations, signalling that Republicans are preparing for a budget fight that will come in the heat of the 2012 campaign. MORE

May. 31, 2012

Powerful lobbyist Dennis M Kelleher, who built a reputation cleaning up after crises, runs Better Markets, a nonprofit that pushes for tighter regulation of American banks; he says the organization presents an alternative argument to the one made by the banks and their lobbyists; still, Better Markets and the handful of other advocates for the public interest remain seriously outmanned. MORE

May. 27, 2012

Editorial criticizes Republicans, particularly Mitt Romney, for attacking Pres Obama for carrying out an unprecedented agenda of regulation of industry when, in fact, the Obama administration has a mediocre record on regulation. MORE

May. 20, 2012

Nicholas D Kristof Op-Ed column maintains that there is real danger in money-driven politics; cites as an example a report detailing the way the tobacco and chemical industries have paid lobbyists to help them circumvent regulations instead of producing safer products; asserts that the report refutes claims by Republicans that regulation has become too burdensome. MORE

May. 6, 2012

Bringing a car into the United States that was not originally engineered to meet federal regulations can be a monumental task, but there are detours around some of the regulatory roadblocks. MORE

Apr. 3, 2012

Obama administration often disagrees with the Food and Drug Administration on regulatory issues, but FDA officials believe their decisions should be divorced from politics and based solely on their own scientific assessments; Republicans have relentlessly accused Obama of being an overzealous and job-killing regulator, forcing the administration to calibrate its election season positions (Series: Political Science). MORE

Mar. 15, 2012

Gail Collins Op-Ed column criticizes Congress for the bipartisan passage of a bill that would remove investor protections in the financial marketplace; asserts that when it comes to deregulating business, all of the worst ideas in the modern history of Congress have been bipartisan to the core. MORE

Mar. 11, 2012

Editorial criticizes both Congress and the Obama administration for supporting a terrible package of bills that would undo essential investor protections; asserts that despite claims that overly burdensome regulations have impeded the ability of small businesses to grow, given that the financial system almost imploded in 2008, there is no excuse for relaxing regulations. MORE

Feb. 23, 2012

Some economists say that alongside Germany’s export success is another, creakier economy that suffers from overregulation, operates well below its potential, and holds back not only the country but the rest of Europe; at the end of 2011, the country's economy, the world's fourth-largest, shrank for the first time since 2009. MORE

Jan. 28, 2012

Floyd Norris Off the Charts column highlights Edelman survey finding Americans are split almost down the middle on the issue of whether there is too much regulation of business or too little; notes residents of most other countries are more likely to think more regulation is needed; notes there is widespread agreement worldwide that the current level of regulation is not right. MORE

Jan. 14, 2012

James B Stewart Common Sense column contends the government's controlling stake in General Motors proves that ownership and regulation are inherently incompatible; cites issues surrounding the Chevy Volt and GM's executive pay restrictions as two examples of this incompatibility. MORE

Dec. 6, 2011

David Brooks Op-Ed column argues that while Republicans may not like the federal regulations imposed by President Obama, there is no evidence that his policies are stealing jobs or destroying the American economy, as they assert. MORE

Dec. 5, 2011

Editorial scores Republican-backed bill called Regulations From the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act, which would require both houses of Congress and the president to approve any major regulation issued by a federal agency before it could take effect; contends bill is a deeply undemocratic expression of the Republicans' antiregulatory philosophy, and that it would undermine a functioning system that protects people from harm. MORE

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President Obama will unveil on Monday a set of environmental regulations devised to sharply cut planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from the nation’s power plants and ultimately transform America’s electricity industry.